An enjoyable mystery read. Katharine Murray had to dig deep to find information about a couple murders in and around her family. And it all started as she was empty nesting, her husband continually on business trips and being dump on with her late aunt's "junk". A diary was stolen. An ancient necklace was not but the theif came back looking and her home was destroyed. To add to the conflict, people that knew about the diary and necklace were being murdered.